Red Hook Jazz Festival at Urban Meadow

More info @ http://urbanmeadowbrooklyn.blogspot.com/

All things BQE - Cobble Hill Association General Meeting

For more information about the two major initiatives for the BQE in our area, please attend the following meeting.  It is an opportunity to meet our neighbors and begin working toward building support for the BQE enhancements.  

You Are Invited to the

COBBLE HILL ASSOCIATION

Spring, 2011 General Meeting

The BQE

Past

A fascinating look at the construction of the BQE “ditch”

that runs through our communities by historian Francis Morrone

Present

Update on plans to reconstruct Triple Cantilevered Roadway

 and Future

How to “Fix the Ditch” – a presentation of the NYCEDC/

Starr Whitehouse “BQE Enhancement Study”

Time: 7:30 P.M.

Date: Monday, May 23, 2011

Place: Long Island College Hospital

Conference Room A

Enter at main entrance 339 Hicks (at Atlantic)

All members of the public are invited. No admission charge.

STOP THE CHOP

Join State Senator Squadron, Congressman Nadler, Congresswoman Velazquez, State Senator Montgomery, Assemblywoman Millman, Councilmember Levin and Councilmember Lander

at a 

Rally to End Tourist Helicopter Noise in Brooklyn

Sunday, May 15 - 1:00PM

Pier 6 Brooklyn Bridge Park

(at the end of Atlantic Avenue)

Join your neighbors, community leaders and local elected officials to rally to end all tourist helicopter flights from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport.  Brooklynites from DUMBO to Red Hook have put up with this nuisance for too long!

Rain or Shine!

Questions? - please contact

Senator Squadron's Office

718-875-1517 or adelisi@nysenate.gov

Reminder: COWNA Social This Sunday at MikNic Lounge

The Columbia Waterfront Neighborhood Association
Invites you to our Spring Social
 
FIXING THE BQE DITCH:

NEXT STEPS?

Meet your Neighbors and Get Involved

Sunday, May 1

4 - 6 pm

MikNic Lounge

200 Columbia Street at Sackett Street

Happy Hour Drink Specials!

Columbia St. Tree Brigade - Saturday 4/30/11 - 10 AM

Come help beautify the community and protect local trees by participating in the "Columbia Street Tree Brigade" this Saturday, 4/30/11 starting at 10am. We will be focusing our efforts this time around on Columbia St. between Union and Hamilton (last year's events covered Atlantic to Union).

Mulch and tools are being generously provided by the Partnership for Parks. Donations of used newspaper and cardboard are more than welcome - as this can be used for extra weed protection!

All ages are welcome - last year the kids loved it!

Saturday, 4/30/11
10 AM - until supplies run out
Meet at Woodhull and Columbia

The Columbia St. Tree Brigade is a project of the COWNA environment committee.

Census: Columbia Waterfront Booming

From CarrollGardensPatch:

The Northern section of Columbia Street, between Degraw Street and Atlantic Avenue, has seen a 24 percent increase in population growth, which is one of the biggest increases anywhere in Brooklyn. The section between Degraw Street and Hamilton Avenue grew by 4 percent, which is more than nearby Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.

DOT Says "No Thanks" to Red Hook Trolley

From The L Magazine:

Last year we got really excited when the city's Department of Transportation set aside some cash and contracted transportation consultants to look into a plan to install streetcars in Red Hook to connect the isolated 'hood to the Smith-9th Street subway station and Downtown Brooklyn. But according to a DOT report released last week (PDF here) the project isn't viable.

Read the rest here.